Deal Wiv It
by Mura Masa (featuring Slowthai)

Album: R.Y.C. (2020)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • It was Mura Masa's girlfriend who came up with the idea for a Slowthai collaboration. He recalled to Dazed Digital that they were listening to the Stranglers' "Peaches" when she suddenly said, "Slowthai should do a track like this."

    Mura Masa agreed and booked Slowthai into the studio.
  • The first thing Mura Masa did when Slowhai arrived at the studio was play him "Peaches." "I was encouraging him not to rap, just to sort of shout in this weird diatribe," he recalled. "We did 20 minutes of improv yelling, and he was totally getting into the fiction, affecting different voices."

    Eventually, Mura Masa culled his 20-minute tirade into the three-minute version. Said Masa: "I felt like it had to be a little bite-sized piece of punk instead of this long, arduous thing, but I really want to do a dubplate of the 20-minute version."
  • This won Best Collaboration at the NME Awards 2020 at London's Brixton Academy. After being presented with their prize, Slowhai said: "I just wanna say in a world where we're disconnected by our phones, and we separate ourselves by color and sexuality... I just want unity. It's OK to not be OK, but don't deal with it on your own."

    Slowthai also won the Hero of the Year accolade at the ceremony.

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Mike Scott of The Waterboys

Mike Scott of The WaterboysSongwriter Interviews

The stories behind "Whole Of The Moon" and "Red Army Blues," and why rock music has "outlived its era of innovation."

Justin Timberlake

Justin TimberlakeFact or Fiction

Was Justin the first to be Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher? Did Britney really blame him for her meltdown? Did his bandmates think he was gay?

Little Big Town

Little Big TownSongwriter Interviews

"When seeds that you sow grow by the wicked moon/Be sure your sins will find you out/Your past will hunt you down and turn to tell on you."

Church Lyrics

Church LyricsMusic Quiz

Here is the church, here is the steeple - see if you can identify these lyrics that reference church.

Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket

Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet SprocketSongwriter Interviews

The "All I Want" singer went through a long depression, playing some shows when he didn't want to be alive.

Devo

DevoSongwriter Interviews

Devo founders Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale take us into their world of subversive performance art. They may be right about the De-Evoloution thing.